HW Cricket App Launched by HoldingWilley Challenging the Conventional

HoldingWilley has launched a cricket app, HW Cricket App, that is said to change the way people surf cricket scores in their phones, in a course of time. Aditya Pathak, Strategy Lead, HoldingWilley announced, while launching the app, it is based on four pillars – Fast, Innovative, Lite, and Shareable. The beauty of HW Cricket App, as he further added, lies in its unconventional design and concept. Although there are a number of cricket apps already there in the play store, this app is bound to make a difference.


The creators of HW Cricket App said they believe in challenging the conventional in everything they do and believe in thinking differently. That is the crux of matter behind creating the newly launched app. The company believes in challenging the conventional by making something in its pure and original form, something that is innovative and built with features what users would seek. They claim to create a great cricket app and have challenged everyone to try it and experience it.


Cricket fans always give high preference to live scores as compared to anything else while surfing a cricket app. The whole concept lies in getting the scores easily and as fast as possible. Users are also quite perceptive to data usage as and when surfing apps are in use on their mobile phone. Data usage is definitely a major concern at all times while surfing apps, is what the app creators felt about mobile and data users.


This issue has been resolved as HW Cricket is an 'only scores cricket app'. The app has been kept as a clean, easy to access and innovatively simple in its design, concept and usage. That is why there are not so many sections, so many tabs or buttons, so many links, not too useful commentary and on top of it a cumbersome and distasteful design.


Fast, Lite, Simple, Innovative and easily Shareable HW Cricket Version 1.0.1 has been ideated by Aditya Phatak while the coding has been done by Javed Khatri. The top features of HW Cricket App include:

• Live cricket score updates and fast ball by ball scores.
• Current Matches page - To help you follow all live matches in one place.
• Upcoming matches - what's coming up next?
• Results of recent matches.
• Sharing of cricket scores - Give score updates to your friends easily via Whatsapp, Twitter , Facebook, Google hangout, Hike, telegram, SMS, Gmail/email etc.
• Live cricket analytical tools using historical and live data – Chance of Winning
• These tools provide win probability, match outcome, team performance measures and batting difficulty.
• Tool graphics easy to understand and share.
• In-depth analysis and app explanations at website HoldingWilley.com

HoldingWilley.com is named after Brian Johnston's popular quote used during an England versus West Indies Test Match at The Oval in 1976 that said - “The bowler's is Holding, the batsman's Willey”. The site offers unique game analysis tools such as Form Factor, COW, Dominance etc.

A Whooping Rs 1 Core Funding in Angel Funding for CollegeDunia

Where there is a will, there is a way. It has been proved yet again, as per a recent news published online. The will is to etablish CollegeDunia in a grand manner and the way has come by means of angel funding of over $160,000, or Rs. 1 crore (almost). This portal was launched in May 2014 by its founder Sahil Chalana and soon it caught eyes of many investors. This particular funding of over 1 crore has come from Gaadi.com, an automobile portal, and some unnamed investors.

 

The unique portal CollegeDunia aims to provide end to end information about any college of India. It is in fact a search engine for colleges of India where currently it lists over 800 colleges and 1500 courses all across India. It plans to cover all colleges and courses along with all information and relation between the two. For instance a college listing details about its history, courses, fee, location, admission criteria, facilities etc.

It Is All Offers Details From FlipKart And All Other Online Stores On Zoutons

Zoutons is a single place online that provides you best of the offers, category wise or store wise for almost all major online stores. For example if you have to check about what all is being offered by one of the top online stores Flipkart, you just need to go to the official Flipkart website and check about it. 

Imagine that the same exercise you have to do for 10 more online stores. The most feasible and quick solution that comes to mind is to go to each of the store's official website one by one and find out about each, then analyze by spending some extra amount of time and energy to zero down to a particular story for a particular purchase. And even after completing this hectic exercise and making your purchase, you will keep doubting if the research was complete and analysis was fruitful in real effective manner.

To avoid all these hassles, confusions and save your time and energies; along with a commitment of providing accurate, complete and useful information on a single portal, about almost all online stores, Zoutons is there. So to check all Flipkart offers, you just need to visit the Flipkart page on this portal to get all relevant details. 

To Know All About Top Management Schools In India: CollegeDunia

Getting right information about management schools is not difficult, but only when you want some amount of information about a particular school. When it comes to get a useful information, for all management schools of India, at one location, along with the courses offered, fee, duration, rating and lot more, there is one perfect place for the same and that is CollegeDunia. The site is not only for providing complete information on management schools, but all other streams like Engineering, Medical, Arts, Science, Commerce, Law etc.

In addition to the above there are two more very useful tabs on this portal. One is about all the forthcoming exams related to all above streams mentioned. The exam details include all information about registration dates, fee, examination day(s), exam valid for what all institutes etc. Another useful section is News where you get all latest 'what is happening in the area of education'.

When it comes to a particular stream, say Management Schools in India it provides you complete list of all sort of management schools all across India. For instance, as of now, there are 762 schools listed on this page. But this information is not static and keeps getting updated on a regular basis. IIM Ahmedabad is among the top of the list.

Picturesque Super Seven By Ishant Sharma At Lords: India Vs England: Test 2: India Won by 95 Runs

Player of the match - Ishant Sharma (India)

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Ishant Sharma had a super bowling in the second innings of England's batting at the Mecca of Cricket - Lords. England was given a target of 319 runs to win. His first victim was Ian Bell who was clean bowled at his individual score of 1 staying only for 4 balls. Team Score: 71-3. Over: 30th.

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His second victim was Alistair Cook caught by Captain & Wicket Keeper M S Dhoni on his individual score of 22 made of 93 balls with 2 fours. Team's score: 72-4, Over: 32nd

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Next to be grabbed by Ishant was Moeen Ali who got out at his individual score of 39 made of 147 balls with 5 fours. He was caught by Cheteshwar Pujara. Team Score: 173-5, Over: 76th

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Ishant's 4th wicket was Matt Prior who was caught by Murali Vijay on his score of 12 made in 11 balls with 2 fours. Team Score: 198-6, Over: 80th.

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Ben Stokes was the 5th victim of the innings who got caught out by Pujara without opening his account. Team Score: 201-7; Over: 82nd.

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Within a gap of 3 balls in the same over Joe Root, who was well settled and was playing at 66 made in 146 balls with 7 fours, got caught out by Binny. Team Score: 201-8, Over: 82nd. This was Ishant's 6th pick of the innings.

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The last victim of Ishant Sharma was Stuart Broad. Enough damage had been done by now and India's victory was just 2 wickets far. Broad was caught behind the wickets by Dhoni. He made 8 runs of 14 balls with 1 four. Team Score: 216-9. Over: 86th. 

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T20 World Cup: 10 Ball Ki Keemat Tum Kya Jaano Yuvraj Babu: Another Blunder From Dhoni To Surrender Against SL

The finals between Sri Lanka and India of T20 World Cup played at Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh,  never seemed to be a serious attempt from Indian side. Yuvraj should not have experimented in finals looking at his consistently failing innings and more so the confidence with which he is playing these days. Even if he was taken the next blunder that Dhoni did was to send Yuvraj at second down after Rohit Sharma departed in the 11th over. From 11th to 19th over, as long as Yuvraj was there at crease with Virat Kohli, it was the most devastating spell of runs scored by Indian batsmen.

Yuvraj was clearly failing to play against Sri Lankan bowlers. out of 21 balls almost 10 balls were wasted by him by either trying to hook the ball and failing or defending himself as if a test match was being played. Instead he should have performed a solider's attempt to go for a suicidal shot as early as possible to get out of the fear he was having on the field.

The onus in any case goes to Dhoni for showing over confidence on Yuvraj and sending him on 2 down. Instead he should have sent Raina, Ashwin and Jadeja before Yuvraj and himself. Probably the score would have been a little respectable and at a level to provide a little bit of confidence to the Indian bowlers.

The First Match Stolen By Australia With Excellent Batting

It was a day night match on a batting friendly newly built Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. Australia team is in India for a 6 ODIs series. The second match is Jaipur. Rest four matches will be played at Mohali, Ranchi, Cuttack and Nagpur respectively.

It was a nice decision taken by Australian Captain George Bailey to opt for batting after winning the toss. And he played a captain's knock by making brilliant 85 runs in 82 balls. Indian bowling was totally ineffective against Australian batsmen throughout. Only two bowlers who were able to control run rate were Jadeja and Ashwin and to some extent non regular Yuvraj and the young pacer Bhuvaneshwar Kumar.

Overall Australia was in total  command in all three areas - batting, bowling and fielding. Australia put a solid challenge of 305 runs for India to win that seemed to be an uphill task once the opener Shikhar Dhwan and middle order batsmen Yuvraj Singh, Dhoni and Jedeja could not prove themselves. 

IPL 2013 Finals: Mumbai Indians Batting Says Battle Is Won

202 runs by Mumbai Indians when invited by Rajasthan Royals in the Finals of IPL 2013 being played at Delhi's Feroze Shah Kotla Ground. It is a fantastic performance by all seven players who got a chance to bat. On this batting friendly wicket though Rajasthan Toyals have fair chances of performing well and winning the finals but chances are bleak to break this jinx of 10.10 runs per over.

Sachin Tendulkar was first to go at 15 made off 13 balls with 3 fours. He was bowled by Shane Watson on he third ball of fifth over. Dwayne Smith made 44 off 39 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. He was next to go on the fourth ball of 12th over bowled by Tambe. Score was not in a very good condition when Rayudu departed in 14th over on 29 with MI score on 109 for 3.

But then it was bombardment from captain Rohit Sharma (14 balls 33 runs, 3 fours and 2 sixes), Keiron Pollard 10 balls 15 runs, 1 four and 1 six, Glenn Maxwell 14 balls, 37 runs, 4 fours and 2 sixes.  Karthik made excellent 15 runs on 5 balls with 2 sixes and Harbhajan was handy with a six in 2 balls he got to play.

Sachin Tendulkar: Last Match In IPL: 6 Oct 2013

Last IPL match of Sachin Tendulkar being played at Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla ground and is the finals of IPL between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. Two stalwarts - world top scorer Sachin Tendulkar representing Mumbai Indians and Rahul Dravid, the third top scorer in both the formats of cricket in world (ODI and Test Match) representing Rajasthan Royals. RR won the toss and decided to field first. Sachin Tendulkar opened the bat with Dwayne Smith and got out on 15 made in 13 balls with 3 fours on 3rd ball of 5th over of the game being bowled by Shane Watson.

Bye Sachin from IPL and have greater moments of your life ahead.

Zaheer Khan: Negligible Chances To Get A Place In National Indian Cricket Team

Last match that Zaheer played was in Kolkata - Test Match against England.in which he had bowled only 31 overs and taken a solo wicket. Zaheer has a chronic issue of fitness and that is why he has never been consistent in the team for a long time. Even for the matches  he has played, fitness on the field has mostly been the issue and hence he has not been able to throw long spells. 

After not getting selected for National Cricket Team Zaheer went abroad to France for a fitness trip along with Yuvraj Singh. Both have been back recently and in a press conference both have announced about each other's fitness and readiness to join Indian Team. In fact Zaheer has been reported to lose 6 kgs of his weight during this fitness session in France.

More important is again how he performs on field rather than his fitness claims. His consistent performance is also very important in forthcoming 4-5 domestic matches (if he gets a chance) and then he can claim for his place in national team for SA tour. Also critical is that during his absence so many more talented bowlers have got a chance to demonstrate their skills and hence are strong contenders for their place in the team.

Bowlers like Siddharth Kaul from Punjab, Ishwar Chand Pandey from Pune, Stuart Binny from Karnataka, Jaydev Unadkat from Saurashtra, Umesh Yadav from Maharashtra, Ashok Dinda from Kolkata, Mohammed Shami from Kolkata and many more in the making are giving strong competition to Zaheer. Big question is whether to give a place to Zaheer for a couple of years more or give a chance to more talented newcomers to groom them for the forthcoming International challenges.

Chances of Selection of Yuvraj Singh For National Cricket Indian Team Are Negligible

Looking at the new crop of batsmen it seems very difficult for Yuvraj to find his place back in Indian Team in any format be it Twenty-20, ODI or Test Match. Moreover Yuvraj has never been a very consistent player. He has definitely blasted many a times and has turned a doomed Indian innings into a match winning. At times he has also shown his bowling skills in all formats of the game. But being out of cricket for more than 6 months now due to fitness issues has given a golden chance to many new highly skilled aspirant entrants who have made a strong impression to get a place in Indian Team.

Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja and so on - the list is long for the newer generation batsmen who are strong contenders to grab a place in Indian Cricket Team.

In any case even if Yuvraj contends for his place in the Indian Cricket Team - as he has done in a public press meet recently after returning back from his fitness tour from France; he will have to show his consistent calibre in 4-5 domestic matches first in order to convince selectors and to avoid and controversy of getting unwanted favor.

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Are You Aware About ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Committee And Galle Incident?

How many among us are aware about International Cricket Council’s (ICC) controlled ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Committee? Well, this committee has set some minimum standards for any pitch across the globe that claims to conduct an international match. All cricket playing countries have to adhere to these standards for all their international pitches. This committee was formed in 2006. As the name suggests the standards not only point towards the pitch only but outfield also.

The test match that was played between visiting Australian team and hosts Sri Lanka in Galle from August 31, 2011 to September 4, 2011; came under the scrutiny of this committee as the pitch did not behave normal during the match. The pitch has been declared by this committee having poor quality that needs to take appropriate measures to make it as per standards set by the committee. The next step of the process is that an senior pitch expert of the committee’s panel team (Andy Atkinson, in this case), will visit the pitch under question within a stipulated period after declaring it unfit, and will inspect the pitch thoroughly.

An inspection report with shortfalls and corrective measures will be submitted after the completion of inspection process. The country (SL, here) in turn has to ensure that prior to scheduling any international match on that pitch (Galle, here), a report has to be submitted to ICC committee that confirms about all corrective actions completed satisfactorily.

The whole story began when a concern was raised by Chris Broad, a member of Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees about the poor quality of Galle in which Sri Lanka had lost the match by 125 runs. Broad’s concern was based on the unnatural turn and bounce experience during the match.

Champions League Twenty20 Finals: Mumbai Indians Sealed The Fate of Royal Challengers Bangalore Despite Low Score of 139

No changes were done to any of the two teams playing in their finals having the same players that played the semi finals. Mumbai Indians started well with a sixer on the last ball of the first over of innings, clearly indicating their intentions right from the word go. Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bat first.

Blizzard got run out in the 2^nd over when he along with the opposite end player stood helpless at one end of the crease only. It was Blizzard who only ran from the batting end and reached the other end where Kanwar was standing without any initiative to take run. Actually it was no run and unnecessarily Blizzard gifted his wicket.  Ambati Rayudu came next. He opened his innings with a 4. At the end of 2^nd over MI were 15 for the loss of 1 wicket.

MI need to make at least over 160 runs to keep their chances alive as the RCB team has solid players like Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle and others. Last ball of Nannes in 4^th over of the game clean bowled Kanwar at his individual score of 10 and MI was 24 for the loss of two. James Franklin was next to bat. It was a Yorker ball. 2 wickets down declined MIs run rate and at the end of 5^th over they were 30. Nannes had a good bowling figure of 2 overs 9 runs and 1 wicket that of Kanwar. Franklin hit his first and innings 2^nd six in the 6^th over on the bowling of Aravind.

Aravind is the topper in most sixes hit so far with 10 to his credit. When Franklin and Rayudu were going great guns, Rayudu got out at 22 made in 21 balls, while trying to hit a big shot over mid on that got mistimed.  The run rate was revived back to 6.96. Yadav was next to join. In 10 overs Mumbai Indians were 71 for the loss of three wickets. End of 12^th over saw MI with 82 for 3. It was Yadav who broke the silence by hitting a big six in the 13^th over followed by a 4 on the next ball. It was 14 overs made in 13^th over and the score got improved to 96 for 3 with 7 overs more to go.

Franklin roared back in the 14^th over to complete 100 runs of the innings. But the next ball saw Yadav’s departure getting run out in an unfortunate manner when Vettori did a quick action to take the bails off before he could get his bat in while trying to get back to his crease that he has left when Vettori bowled to Franklin. Mumbai Indians were 105 for 4 and Kieron Pollard came in the middle to take the charge. Franklin was at 41 at that moment of time. The next ball was a great cheer for Royal Challengers Bangalore when Franklin left the crease getting run out trying to take 2^nd run which was not there. Franklin made 41 off just 29 balls.

Two wickets in two consecutive overs gave a double blow to MI team. Run rate was 7.45 in 15^th over. Vettori’s last over’s first ball which was 16^th over of the game gave a big blow to MI when Pollard gave a soft catch to mid on player and got out on just 2 runs. It was Captain Harbhajan Singh who joined but could not stay for long when he got lbw out on the 3^rd ball of the same over. MI was reduced to 109 for 7 with 4.3 over left in the innings. Lasith Malinga opened his innings with a straight six over the bowler, Vettori. MI score was 115 for 7 at the end of 16 overs.

Finally a target of 140 to win was set for RCB to grab the trophy. The score seemed easily achievable with so much batting depth available with the RCB team. But top 4 batsmen were back to pavilion by the closing of 12^th over with score on the board as 73. With Tilakratane Dilshan, Chris Gayle Virat Kohli and Mayank Agarwal getting out, RCB went into defensive mode and probably that brought in more risk and danger to their balance batsmen. The next 3 batsmen were back within 19 runs reducing the score to 92 for 7 in 17^th over, thereby making it a tough task when only Saurabh Tiwary as a batsman was left in the side. The low score of MI turned into a blessing for them as the fate had something else written on the wall.

In the 18^th over when Tiwary also was sent back to pavilion, the story was much clearer. 42 runs were required in 15 balls to win. Kudos to Harbhajan Singh who played a captain’s knock by dismissing two most dangerous men on the RCB side – Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli and later scalped the wicket of RCB Captain Daniel Vettori also. Yuzvendra Chahal also did a marvellous piece of bowling of 3 overs 9 runs and 2 wickets.

The result was almost clear with 18.5 runs per over required in last 2 overs and no established batsmen left for RCB.  The second highest runs for RCB were from Extras which was 20. Top scorer was Dilshan with 27 runs. In his last over and innings’ penultimate over, Malinga took the 9^th wicket of RCB. Last over required 32 runs to win with only 1 wicket in hand. Abu Nechim took the last wicket of RCB in his and innings’ last over thereby closing RCB innings at 108 all out.

Mumbai Indians Win CLT20 finals by 31 runs.

Dean Jones Is Right But Highlighting A Problem Without Proposing A Solution Is Damn Simple

When you are in a bad shape, everyone becomes your well wisher in terms of telling you what you could have done to not to fail in all the areas where you have failed, or highlighting your failures with a subjective solution.

That is what is happening with Team Australia these days. First Darren Barry proposing an overall change in the team management, coaches and selectors, and now Dean Jones telling something which is known to all and probably a kid also can give that statement. Who doesn’t know that when a team is not doing well and failing repeatedly, it need a savior, a hero, a leader, a show caser, a demonstrator, a consistent result getter.

As per Dean Jones, Australian team needs some kind of hero or heroes to revive back the honors and play extremely well consistently in South Africa in both versions of game, ODI and test. The rhythm, momentum and vigor definitely need to be revived back and who is not trying for that. I don’t think team Australia is short of determination or will power, only it might be a question of a focused approach.

Who knows some old lions may roar back in South Africa or a new lion may demonstrate the sharpness of his paws. Let us wait and watch the game. And then India also will be touring Australia one they are back from South Africa.

Champions League Twenty20 Finals: Preview: MI or RCB?

I would call it a balanced game with both teams having equal chances in the final of CLT20 that is to be played in Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium on 9^th Oct 2011. All credits go to the Mumbai Indian Coach Robin Singh for enabling the underdogs to reach finals of the game. Having so many good players out of the team including Sachin Tendulkar due to various injuries and other reasons, Mumbai Indians had least chances of reaching to the finals of the game.

Credit also go to all players who played well in a great united manner to act as an enabler for each other and brought the team to finals. All eyes will be on Kieron Pollard to play a big game and score some bounty runs. The danger man Lasith Malinga is also able to move the direction of any match as he did in the semis against Somerset. Somerset were seen all set to cross the target of 261 and win the game when Malinga clean bowled four of their batsmen to turn it around.

Royal Challengers Bangalore can not be treated as any less than MIs. Chris Gayle is the man who has all powers to win game under any circumstances. Dirk Nannes, Saurabh Tiwary, Md Kaif, Virat Kohli; all are able to play big games. The RCB coach Ray Jennings would definitely be making some last moment strategies with his team on how to tackle each of the MI player in finals.

Looking at the pitch of Chennai, the team that wins the toss should first go for batting as there will be good help to bowlers in the second innings. Winning the toss and taking the right decision would be an advantageous factor.